picked an o5 rx8 bout a year ago got a after market bumper off eBay got the car sorted and on the road as my Mrs dally after a month or so a hot start problem started and she fell out with the car. i asked around to try find out what was wrong got so many bad reports about the renisiss i decided to do a engine swap i was gathering bits for an ae86 shell witch would be cut and shut with a 180 running a rb25det so i got to work striping the rx and Dummy fits the rb25 and box.
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so after a lot off messing about choping and head scraching we got the donkey and box where we want it .mm.jpg
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we had 2 move the sump and dipstick to the back for clearnce for rack and antiroll bar. and after chooping the subframe it had no strengh so we replaced cross member and got 2 work on the motor mountsmm.jpg
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nice little build good to see more rx's bein worked on
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cheers m8 yea the rx8 is handy 2 get panels for as no 1 wants them sud b a few popping up for the drifting
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You need photobucket LOL
Cool project, look forward to seeing more updates 
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